After legislative leaders negotiated a tentative deal last week, the Senate wound up one vote shy of passing the budget plan, surprising those who believed Senate Republican Leader Dave Cogdill had locked up enough votes in his caucus.

Sen. Dave Cox, R-Fair Oaks, was widely believed to be the 27th Senate vote to pass the budget, but he stated early Sunday, "I'm not a prospect for voting for this budget." That sent Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger scrambling to negotiate with other Senate Republicans in search of one final vote.

Both legislative houses were pondering 27 hastily drafted bills that cover state budgets for two fiscal years: the current one that ends June 30 and the next one that begins July 1.

As a Californian, this is making my day this morning. I can’t believe being taxed in 5 new ways. . .including being taxed if you owe the state taxes? What does that mean? So people like me who change withholding to not get “refunds” are punished?

Maybe they realize people are changing withholding to avoid refunds since the refunds are now “IOUs.”

Good thing I don’t buy new cars (and never will); 2 of the 5 new taxes directly hurt people who buy new cars.

Nothing is good news in Cal until we stop spending $12 billion a year on services for illegals.
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And it will NEVER stop until the radical liberal vote-mongers in the state legislature are removed from office and control. In three decades they have destroyed what was California, the leading model state in America, and turned it into Taxifornia. Forty BILLION bucks in debt and yes, spending over TEN BILLION PER YEAR to fund ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Just take a drive through Los Angeles nowadays. We residents of Taxifornia, remember the times when the state government, run by RESPONSIBLE CONSERVATIVES, was fighting over how to RETURN over three billion in excess taxation to the taxpaying citizens. When our schools were the BEST in the nation. When our demographics were acceptable and did not have to fear gangs in and around major cities.

Anything the liberals touch turns to $%^&. California has been no exception. And now they want us to pay for THEIR MALFEASANCE, CORRUPTION AND LAWBREAKING.

I think the income tax proposal is to take your annual income tax bill and multiply it by 1.05 or 1.025, depending on whether the state gets enough federal funding in Porkulus. It has nothing to do with how much you owe when you file taxes.

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posted on 02/15/2009 8:48:33 AM PST
by thesharkboy
(<-- Looking for the silver lining in every cloud, since 1998)

Apparently that RINO idiot Arnold thinks a billion dollars in new taxes automatically equals a billion dollars in increased revenues. Then he’ll sit back slack jawed as revenues crash, businesses fail and working people flee the state.

OK, let's face facts. First off, Arnold was never Conservative. He was just better than Bustemante. Secondly, this state has been in complete control of the Rats since motor-voter went into effect in the latter 90’s. The ONE thing that we could do to change this is to enact a law that would require ID at the polling places. This, of course, will never happen as long as the Rats have a stranglehold on the State offices. Their voter base is largely illegals and as long as the Rats keep giving our money to them the Rats will remain in power.

Bustemante would have been better? I know that you probably supported McClintock but his recent tight Congressional race showed that he couldn't have won a statewide race. A vote for McClintock would have been a vote for Bustemante. Go ahead, have at me.

When I moved to California back in the 1970’s, its education system was the model for the country. The state universities and community colleges were especially outstanding.

Now it's all gone to hell. We've been overrun by illegal aliens and they're still coming here in droves as Mexico continues to collapse. The voters passed Proposition 187 years ago to deny them benefits, but a liberal judge stopped it, and nothing more has been heard about it since.

I'm looking to spend my retirement years someplace else, like Idaho or Oklahoma.

” It is part of the Communist doctrine and drillbook, laid down by Lenin himself, that Communists should aid all movements towards the Left and help into office weak Constitutional, Radical or Socialist governments. These they should undermine, and from their falling hands snatch absolute power, and found the Marxist state. “

Us, too. We have been here 19 years and, sad to say, California may win in driving us out this year. The one upside to all this Socialism? When the USA is as crappy a place to live as all the other Socialist countries people will stop coming here illegally. Why bother?

Darrell Steinberg never met a tax he didn’t want to impose or a private property right he didn’t want to eliminate. He’s a slimy little commie. God bless you Dave Cox for not caving in to the RINOs in Sacramento.

Bustemante would have been far worst than Schwarzenegger. Arnold throws use crumbs from time to time. Bustemante would be trying to end bilingual education in are schools Spanish only. You want a drivers licenses learn to speak Spanish.

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posted on 02/15/2009 9:09:33 AM PST
by ThomasThomas
( Accept it, there is no except after in math.)

Call Dave Cox and hanks him for standing strong. Dave Cadgill needs to be tarred and feathered and driven from his leadership spot. Send the traitor back to Fresno . Arnold political career is finished too.

Changing your story already? You originally claimed Bustamante would have been worse. Arnold has even managed to make Grey Davis look like a fiscal conservative when you compare the two economies. Your retarded RINO is the worst governor in California history.

And your contention that the Rats were in complete control of the budget is false. Look up "line item veto." Your guy Arnold is apparently too dull witted to do so.

No. It's a 5% surcharge on your TOTAL state income tax liability. Your liability is covered through withholding, quarterly estimated tax payments or a check you send in with your Form540 on April 15th.

In what way? Bustemante was the only democrat I've ever voted for in my life. I wasn't really voting 'for' him; but it works out the same in the end. Schwarzenegger has been nothing but a disaster, I would have done anything to get rid of him.

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posted on 02/15/2009 10:07:58 AM PST
by eclecticEel
(Wall Street isn't a charity ... so why are we giving them money?)

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